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...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...
After being beaten black & white by straight photography, realistic painting has come back in exquisite disarray in the works of Surrealists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, et al. The vogue for their delicately painted dream pictures has caused a slighter vogue for "trompe l'ceil" (fool the eye) paintings, a form of virtuosity in every age since the birds came to peck at Apelles' painted grapes. Eyefoolers were, in fact, a popular specialty in the U. S. 60 years ago. Last week in Detroit an interesting U. S. Eyefooler of that period made news when it was snapped...
...slight favorite to win the Varsity race and an even a slighter one to sweep the Regatta, the Crimson oarsmen will get their first a stiff competition of the year on the Basin this afternoon against Cornell, Syracuse...
When an elderly and portly flag-officer or captain was being received more hands were required to man the whip than in the case of a younger and presumably slighter lieutenant, say. So, the number of "side-boys" stationed at the ladder today varies with the rank of the guest being received. Also present-day "piping of the side" is a relic of the old order to walk away on the whip...
...Significance. Slighter than the broken bridge at Lima is the thread upon which these, and still more, stories are strung. Seeming irrelevant, their juxtaposition reveals the curious and intricate interweaving of heterogeneous human lives. If a mystical corollary was intended, it is less important than the sheer fortuity which makes bromides say the world is such a small place after...